Synopsis Welcome to Esther Pike’s Fairharbour — a city stuck in constant summer, its walls crumbling in the heat, its oppressive sunlight a relentless presence. Welcome to Jamie Pike’s Fairharbour — a city stuck in perpetual winter, its windows and doorways bricked shut to keep out the freezing cold, its residents striving to survive in […]
Reviews
Review: Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
Synopsis Becky Chambers’ delightful, post-Utopian, Hugo Award-winning series gives us hope for the future. It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the […]
Review: Eynhallow by Tim McGregor
Synopsis: ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes ashore to rent an abandoned […]
Review: Umbra (Sentient Stars #1) by Amber Toro
Synopsis: Earth That Was has faded into myth. After millennia spent wandering, humans are no longer nomads. Twelve tribes stand allied under the United Tribal Axis; but there is a signal in the darkness that threatens to destroy everything. All Skyla wanted after leaving the Navy was to be left alone. Just her ship, the […]
Review: Return of the Griffin (Hybrid Helix #2) by J.C.M. Berne
Synopsis Turn Two of the Hybrid Helix. Humanity faces extinction. Ten-kiloton monsters are rising from the depths of the Pacific, levelling entire cities in frenzies of destruction. Earth’s heroes have been decimated. The survivors put their hope in one last, desperate plan: find Hyperion, Earth’s most powerful hero, and ask him to return from exile […]
Review: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
Synopsis: Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. When an uprising in Baskul forces Hugh Conway and a small group of English and American residents to flee, their plane crash-lands in the far western reaches of the Tibetan Himalayas. There, the bewildered party finds themselves […]
Review: The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien De Castell
Synopsis ‘Seven powerful mages want to make the world a better place. We’re going to kill them first.’ Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he’s wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn’t protect his frail body from a light breeze. […]
Review: The Stone Knife (The Songs Of The Drowned #1) by Anna Stephens
Synopsis A fantasy epic of freedom and empire, gods and monsters, love, loyalty, honour, and betrayal, from the acclaimed author of GODBLIND. For generations, the forests of Ixachipan have echoed with the clash of weapons, as nation after nation has fallen to the Empire of Songs – and to the unending, magical music that binds […]
Review: The Dismembered by Jonathan Janz
Synopsis: “In the spring of 1912, American writer Arthur Pearce is reeling from the wounds inflicted by a disastrous marriage and the public humiliation that ensued. But his plans to travel abroad, write a new novel, and forget his ex-wife are interrupted by a lovely young woman he encounters on a London-bound train. Her name is […]
Review: A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
Synopsis: Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by […]
Review: The Flames of Mira (Rift Walker #1) by Clay Harmon
The Flames of Mira is a wildly fun and often grim fantasy novel set in one of the most unique fantasy worlds I’ve ever read.
Review: The Feeding by Anthony Ryan
Parts I Am Legend, parts The Last of Us, and with perhaps a certain whiff of Fallout or Mad Max-esque fortified settlements, (just to name drop a few IPs in there for the vibes for ya) The Feeding stands on its own two feet as a brand-new entry among the ranks of post apocalypse without any of the tired clichés but with all of the beloved tropes you want to find in this subgenre. And bear in mind, this is not a zombie book. Not quite.